Red Sox health takes a down turn
Posted on Wednesday, May 14 @ 14:31:52 CEST by Raulken |
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By Michael Silverman / Red Sox Notebook BALTIMORE - Bad day all around for the health and happiness of the Red Sox [team stats]. Right fielder JD Drew [stats] hyper-extended his left wrist sliding for a catch, center fielder Coco Crisp [stats] had to...
 Sports Francona out 2 games after mother-in-law's death BALTIMORE, 05.13.2008 The Associated Press,
Boston Red Sox manager Terry Francona returns to the dugout after pulling starting pitcher Clay Buchholz in the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Minnesota Twins Monday, May 12, 2008 in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jim Mone) Boston Red Sox manager Terry Francona left the team and will miss the first two games of his team's series at Baltimore following the death of his mother-in-law. Mary Ann Lang, mother of Francona's wife, Jacque, died Monday night in Tucson, Ariz. Francona and his family traveled to Tucson on Tuesday. Bench coach Brad Mills was to run the Red Sox in Francona's absence. Although he has experience in the role _ he was 5-3 as a replacement for Francona in 2005 _ Mills was not looking forward to the assignment. "It's never nice, and especially in this situation and under these circumstances," Mills said before Tuesday's game. "And I could probably say it's never nice under any circumstances because something has happened. I guess it is a little bit different if there was a graduation or something along those lines." Mills was a teammate and roommate of Francona's at the University of Arizona. He was also a teammate of Francona's when both played with the Montreal Expos from 1981-83. Now in his fifth season as...
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